BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday accused Google’s English language search engine of spreading vulgar content that violated the nation’s law. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang did not directly answer a question about whether government action was responsible for recent disruptions in access to Google sites from within China. But he made […]

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SEOUL (Reuters) – LG Electronics Inc on Thursday launched liquid crystal display (LCD) televisions that use light-emitting diodes (LED) as a light source, and said it was aiming to sell as many as 5 million units in 2010. The South Korean flat-screen TV maker also reiterated its previously stated goal of selling 18 million LCD […]

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp on Wednesday unveiled its Hohm website designed to help residential power consumers save money and reduce their environmental impact by conserving energy. Microsoft has been selling technology to the energy industry for years and is now targeting the home power market as the weak economy forces consumers to find […]

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Wzor has placed the download links to the Windows 7 RTM on their home page, and it definitely the real deal. The build string is:6.1.7600.16384.win7_rtm.090710-1945 This build string is a huge jump from the build before the RTM, and it also has a valid digital signature (cannot be faked). This is straight out of Microsoft, […]

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Following the earlier court defeat for Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter and the pending civil action taken by several Hollywood studios, the Swedish authorities have now ordered The Pirate Bay to be disconnected from the Internet. The site’s bandwidth suppliers have been threatened with a large fine. The site is completely offline. – www.torrentfreak.com I was […]

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With both the Pirate Bay and OpenBitTorrent trackers down at the moment, many people are unable to download torrents unless they enable DHT. Luckily there are a few backup trackers that people can use, and thanks to Google’s free App Engine, everyone can setup a tracker of their own in a few minutes. In their […]

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Higher margins, the ability to collect and use information about customers, more revenue and greater willingness to share content with Internet operators is prompting Hollywood to join forces with the likes of Google’s YouTube or set up its own Internet portals. Online video streaming and digital downloads should nearly triple to […]

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union launched a free satellite navigation network on Thursday that could help pilots, drivers and blind people by fine-tuning the accuracy of the U.S. global positioning system (GPS) to around 2 meters. The EGNOS system will use three satellites and 34 ground stations to narrow the horizontal accuracy of GPS […]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc is in the early stages of looking at ways to write software that would fully integrate plug-in hybrid vehicles to the power grid, minimize strain on the grid and help utilities manage vehicle charging load. “We are doing some preliminary work,” said Dan Reicher, Google’s director of Climate Change […]

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 I knew they would be back as this article from “TorrentFreak” explains it in detail: The Pirate Bay is going on a road trip through Europe, one they hope to end today in a former NATO bunker. After a move from Sweden to the Ukraine, The Pirate Bay has now arrived at CyberBunker, an ISP […]

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